Effectiveness of Video-Based Rehabilitation Program on Pain, Functionality and Quality of Life in the Treatment of Rotator Cuff Tears

Istanbul University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Rotator Cuff Tear

Pain, Shoulder

Treatments

Other: Physiotherapist-Supervised Rehabilitation Program

Other: Video-Based Rehabilitation Program

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03373799

IstanbulU30

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of the video-based rehabilitation program on pain, functionality and quality of life in the conservative treatment of partial tears of the rotator cuff whether it was as successful as the physiotherapist-supervised rehabilitation program.

Full description

In our study a common exercise program, which can be used in conservative treatment of a partial rotator cuff tear, is applied with two different methods; a video-based rehabilitation program and physiotherapist-supervised rehabilitation program. Video-based rehabilitation program was developed to investigate whether this program is effective on pain, functionality and quality of life and as successful as a physiotherapist-supervised rehabilitation program.

Enrollment

30 patients

Sex

All

Ages

40 to 60 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Forty years of age or older patients that had been diagnosed for a partial rotator cuff tear that was unrelated to trauma by a specialist orthopedist with MRI and physical examination and no other shoulder problems on the diagnosed shoulder were included into this study.

Exclusion criteria

Patients that had been diagnosed for a full-thickness or massive rotator cuff tear, operated previously, had frozen shoulder or glenohumeral instability
Younger than 40-year-old, and athletic patients with acute tear symptom were excluded from this study.